East Hampton High School

East Hampton High School is a high school in East Hampton, New York. It is a part of the East Hampton Union Free School District.

The principal is Adam Fine.[1] Its sports teams are known as the Bonackers, and the school colors are maroon and gray. The current high school facility opened in 1970,[2] and a $49 million expansion was scheduled to be completed in 2010.[3][4] From 1923 to 1970, the high school occupied the building that now houses the middle school.[5]

Athletics
1989 basketball championship trophy in East Hampton, New York

The school won the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Boys Basketball Championships Class B in 1989 and placed second in Class A in 2008. The state championship tournament system began in 1979. East Hampton won 1977 state championship in Division A[6] (the tournament was consolidate for all divisions in 1979) and its star player was future NBA player Howard Wood. Wood's younger brother Kenny Wood played for the 1989 team. Both players were coached by Ed Petrie (1933-2015) who coached East Hampton from 1969 until 2010 when he retired at age 77 (including all state title appearances). Petrie had 754 wins with various eastern Lond Island schools—setting a New York state coaching record. The basketball court is named for Petrie.[7][8] Petrie was drafted 12th round (84th pick) of the 1956 NBA Draft out of the Seton Hall Pirates by the New York Knicks but only played in the minor leagues for the Hazelton Jets and New Haven Bears before coaching high school.[9][10][11]

The school did not field varsity football teams in 2017, 2018, and 2019 because school officials said they could not field 22 people on the team. The school had traditionally in New York Division IV. The school has rejected a proposal to join with Southampton, Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton for football but the combined schools would then complete in Division I which is for Long Island's biggest schools.[12] New York State does not have a true state championship in football as New York City and Long Island schools do not compete. The highest level is the Long Island Football Championships and East Hampton has not appeared in any of those games.

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

References
  1. East Hampton High School Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Samuel Meddaugh; Was High School Principal". The East Hampton Star. March 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-03-29.("Samuel Alanson Meddaugh, a former principal at East Hampton High School for whom its auditorium is named ... was the first principal to serve in the new high school building, which opened in 1970")
  3. "School Choice Heats Up". The East Hampton Star. Apr 30, 2009.("East Hampton School District, which has taken on the sole responsibility of educating public high school students on a tuition basis from Sagaponack, Wainscott, Amagansett, Montauk, and Springs for decades.")
  4. "East Hamptons schools construction on schedule". The East Hampton Press. Aug 18, 2009.("Work on the high school, which began in May, is the last phase of the $80 million districtwide expansion and renovation project, which was approved by district voters in a bond referendum in May 2006. The project was scheduled to be finished by the end of 2010")
  5. Rae, John Warden, East Hampton, p.55 (2000)(ISBN 978-0738504018)
  6. https://www.newspapers.com/image/482162116/?terms=eAST%2BHAMPTON%2BHIGH%2BSCHOOL%2BBASKETBALL
  7. https://patch.com/new-york/easthampton/obituary-ed-petrie-former-east-hampton-high-school-basketball-coach-dies-82
  8. https://www.easthamptonstar.com/archive/high-schools-inaugural-hall-fame-class
  9. https://shupirates.com/honors/hall-of-fame/edward-r-petrie/164
  10. https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/NYK/1956_transactions.html
  11. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/nyregion/631-wins-the-coach-with-the-most.html
  12. https://indyeastend.com/sports/high-school-sports/still-no-varsity-football-in-east-hampton/
  13. https://sagharborexpress.com/a-conversation-with-hilary-thayer-hamann__trashed/
  14. https://www.easthamptonstar.com/archive/high-schools-inaugural-hall-fame-class


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